hi all, would like to know from any owner of Y480:

1. Does your gear having any overheat problem? can you post temperature data showing temperatures at idle, and full load?
especially interested to know if Asus N56 runs cooler than lenovo or not.

2. I read from here and cari.com that some owners of Lenovo modify their gear by taking out the dvd drive and place the hdd there with a caddy, and put an ssd in the original hdd slot. reportedly this lowers temp by 10c. - would this violate the warranty?

3. can we do step 2, by just moving the hdd to the optical drive bay but not putting any ssd (leave the hdd slot empty)?

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actually i have asked this in another thread, but place here too hope to get more answers...
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&#entry53686897

seems to have a bit too many Y480 threads...
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hmm i read from the china site

http://ideapad.it168.com/thread-2241468-4-1.html

that Lenovo has taken out the HDD activity indicating light, just because of some western designer's taste, getting quite a lot of complaint from the Chinese users...

can owners of 480 and 580 confirm this?

youtube video i dont know, but saw this if you can read chinese (but with lots of pics):

http://ideapad.it168.com/thread-2232884-1-1.html

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Added on August 9, 2012, 7:45 amfrom design maybe, but in actual world, lots of ppl complain abt this, iincluding the China users where Lenovo is based. that's why many owner modify them by moving their hdd to the dvd drive bay. so far haven't heard similar cases on the asus n56.

would like to hear more from owners...

This post has been edited by chopin: Aug 9 2012, 07:45 AM

haha, that's interesting... hope to see some comparison temperature tests between the two, if the results shows the same, it will clear Lenovo's name a lot :-)

haha sorry for giving u a chinese page... but quite informative, those guys are crazy and brave...

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Added on August 9, 2012, 1:35 pmanother thing folks: when we buy from online sellers, or even from a shops, how do we know if they are AP set or not?

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how much extra to pay for it?

hello sifus, how much is a piece of U2?

thx for the answer....

just a side note, currently there are a few active threads on Leno Y480/Y580, a bit distracting as some of us might have to post the same questions repeatedly on all of them...

why don't someone start an owners' club, let everyone concentrate on it so no one will miss out any related post?

hmm... mine is Seagate ST500.

hi all, i bought the dos version, so have been spending one whole day to install programs and drivers. i download all the drivers from Lenovo. all the drivers have no problem except these two: the Audio and the BIOS update

I attach screen shots below.

biosupdate: 5dcn34ww
Realtek Audio Driver: 0pau08ww

help please...

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i download all from the internet, have no disc.

i was not using the battery, whole day using power cord. i dunno that bios update need to have battery + power cord?

i think my sister might have misplaced the disc, i'll get from her later...

anyway, my bios is 5DCN36WW(V2.03), not the latest right? will try with battery on later...

thanks.

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This post has been edited by chopin: Aug 11 2012, 06:51 PM

well yeah, mine is GT650M, and looks like mine is an old stock.

hmm, is it so difficult to buy the caddy? can't we find them in lowyat plaza or digital mall?

hi guys, me too want to sell the 4GB RAM in my Lenovo Y480 (1333)

pls PM me if it suits you......

(edited: this is not the original one in the y480, it is the extra stick that I paid for from the seller.)

This post has been edited by chopin: Aug 13 2012, 04:22 PM

hi, i know heat will harm the HDD, but if we put an SSD there, wont the heat harm the SSD too?

Hikari85 is a seller located in Penang, you can try contact her:

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=992181&hl=

hi guys, may I know what is the driver for wifi of Y480? pls check and let me know asap...

i dun mean the Ethernet controller... i mean the wifi.

when i open Device Manager, under Network adaoters got 3 listings:

Atheros AR8161/.......Ethernet controller
Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter
Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adaptert

when i firts used this lappy on last Saturday, the WiFi worked, but now can't detect my wireless anymore, only on cable can.

pls help....

u mean uninstalling this? --> Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adaptert

or uninstalling all the 3? --> Atheros + Broadcom + Microsoft?

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Added on August 15, 2012, 7:58 amhi sss2sssss: why i cant see the screen like yours? pls refer to the above image attached.

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RM 3400 - 3500 would be fair price.

if you live in klang valley, can try this guy:

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2431528

this is just 1 of them, there are at least a dozen of them listing their post in Trade Zone -> Garage Sales -> Notebooks & Tablets.

Happy hunting, and report back to us your deal.